The WORST episodes of Man vs. Wild
Every episode of Man vs. Wild ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Man vs. Wild!
MAN VS. WILD brings seasoned adventurer Bear Grylls face to face with the grueling task of navigating remote locations, sharing invaluable survival strategies along the way.
#1 - Mexico
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/29/2007
In Mexico, Bear must find his way out of Copper Canyon, and his only supplies are a water bottle, a flint and a knife. Included: how to build a compass; catching and eating scorpions; basics of fire-making; fishing without a line.
#2 - Iceland
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/22/2007
Bear braces for the cold of Iceland, offering survival tips that include how to build a snow cave, live through a blizzard and avoid frostbite, and forage for food.
#3 - Hawaii - Desert Island
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/29/2006
Bear Grylls is cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean, encountering coral reefs, rip currents, relentless surf and sharks.
#4 - Alaskan Mountain Range
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/22/2006
In the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, Bear has only a bottle of water, a knife and a flint as he travels down mountain slopes, over glaciers and through bear-infested forests, navigating a small boat through treacherous ice floes.
#5 - Bears Ultimate Survival Guide Part One
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/23/2009
Grylls offers tips for surviving in some of the world's most unforgiving places.
#6 - Bear Eats
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/21/2007
Grylls offers tips on dining in the wild, with some unusual offerings that are not necessarily palatable.
#7 - Global Survival Guide
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/2011
Bear Grylls travels the world to give you the best tips and techniques so you can survive wherever you're stranded. From skin diving without a mask in the tropics, to finding water in the desert, this is the best of Bear's never before seen footage.
#8 - Guatemala
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/2010
Grylls rappels onto a live volcano in Guatemala, navigates a waterfall in an underground cave, creates a nest to safely sleep in but gets an unwelcome bed buddy, and encounters ancient Mayan ruins.
#9 - Oregon
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/26/2009
Grylls takes on the deepest river based canyon, Hell's Canyon and the dangerous Snake River.
#10 - Northern Australia
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/1/2009
In Australia's Northern Territory, Grylls must rely on many of the skills honed by the Aboriginal people to survive in this sweltering landscape dominated by crocodiles.
#11 - Scotland
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/20/2007
Bear offers survival tips in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park. Included: using moss to purify water; skinning a deer; cooking a rabbit.
#12 - Hawaii - Mount Kilauea
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/1/2006
On Mount Kilauea, an active volcano, Bear climbs down a rope from a helicopter and demonstrates how to create a gas mask, escape from a moving lava flow, find water in a lava tube and get honey from a bee's nest.
#13 - The Deep South
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/27/2008
Grylls enters the swamps of Louisiana where he kills an alligator with a knife, and catches a catfish with his bare hands
#14 - Namibia
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/9/2008
Grylls parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert.
#15 - Texas
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/2/2009
In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.
#16 - Canadian Rockies
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/1/2009
While in the Canadian Rockies, Grylls is buried alive in an avalanche, swims long distance beneath an ice-covered lake, and is airvac-ed to the hospital when an icy glissade goes horribly wrong.
#17 - The Inside Story
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/23/2009
The Man vs. Wild crew who follow Grylls on his travels across the globe, tell how it feels to follow in his footsteps and reveal just how they make Man vs. Wild.
#18 - Western Pacific
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2009
Grylls is on a desert island, south of Papua New Guinea. He wades across a shark-infested tidal channel, climbs crumbling volcanic cliffs, leaps over a 100-foot death drop, and constructs a bamboo windsurfer to make his escape.
#20 - Sierra Nevada
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/8/2006
In the Sierra Nevada's, Bear uses his knowledge of Native American survival techniques to build a shelter, calm wild horses and find food.
#21 - Costa Rican Rainforest
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/2006
Bear Grylls, equipped only with a knife and a water bottle, tries to survive in the Costa Rican rain forest after parachuting onto the Osa Peninsula. He faces swarms of insects, poisonous snakes, dense jungle and mangrove swamps.
#22 - Red Rock Country
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/12/2011
Bear treks through Southern Utah's Red Rock Country.
#23 - Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Part Two
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/16/2009
In his ultimate survival guide Grylls takes on dangerous snakes, fishes for catfish using his finger as bait and joins tribes who survive in the worlds toughest terrains, eats raw goats testicles in the Sahara, and hunts porcupines.
#24 - European Alps
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/24/2006
Bear Grylls, outfitted with only a knife, water bottle, cup and flint, parachutes into the French Alps, where he builds a snow shelter and explains how to survive a fall into a frozen lake.
#25 - Alaska
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/2009
Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.